The Polish Transformation: Tadeusz Kowalik on the Epigonic Bourgeois Revolution of 1989
By (Author) Grzegorz Konat
Translated by Emil Tchorek
Translated by Gavin Rae
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
9th July 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Political economy
Social and cultural history
European history
Paperback
217
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
The Polish Transformation takes an in-depth look at a hitherto unexplored part of the oeuvre of prominent Polish economist and historian of economic thought Tadeusz Kowalik: his thesis that the systemic transformation that took place in Poland in the late 1980s was a de facto "epigonic bourgeois revolution".
Since Kowalik actually never extended his argument to support this thesis, the aim of this study is to answer the following question: If some important reflections on the revolutionary character of the Polish transformation scattered throughout Kowalik's works were to be found, would they together constitute a convincing justification for the thesis of the "epigonic bourgeois revolution"